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New York Magazine reports: Conway responded to the eye-roll on Thursday during an appearance on Fox & Friends. And naturally, she linked it to sexism. “Hillary Clinton is in search of sexism as a lame excuse for why her disastrous candidacy and campaign lost six months ago,” she said. “[But] I face sexism a lot of times when I show …

The Des Moines Register reports: Counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway will speak at this summer’s Family Leadership Summit in Des Moines. The July 15 event, hosted by Christian conservative group The Family Leader, seeks to challenge Christians to engage in government and to pursue “Christ-centered cultural transformation.” The theme for this year’s summit is “Principle over Politics.” “It’s an …

Mediaite reports: CNN’s Chris Cuomo spoke with White House counselor Kellyanne Conway on Wednesday, and things went incredibly off the rails as they held a grueling 19 minute interview about James Comey‘s firing. Seriously, you need to see the whole thing. It’s memorable. Conway hit back at Cuomo by saying “you always want to talk about Russia, Russia, Russia,” and …

Via Mediaite: Hours after the stunning news hit that President Donald Trump had fired FBI Director James Comey, White House counselor Kellyanne Conway popped up on CNN for an interview with Anderson Cooper. And, yep, it was a doozy. Immediately, the CNN anchor wanted to know why the White House decided to act on firing Comey now, leading to Conway …

Raw Story reports: President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign is launching a new website that promises to provide “fact-based information” about his administration. In a press release on Tuesday, Trump campaign executive director Michael Glassner explained that the president “believes in speaking directly with the American people.” “That is the purpose of this new campaign website,” Glassner said. “The new website …

“Look, it’s easier to jeer from the cheap seats than come up with a message of your own and be honest about the facts. How did we get here? Why have so many Americans asked for Obamacare to be repealed and replaced? It’s because you have premiums that have increased by 40 percent on average. “You know, saying people are …

Politico reports: The Congressional Periodical Press Gallery committee has denied Sputnik, a Russian state-owned news website, a permanent congressional press pass. Sputnik has the opportunity to appeal the decision, said Senate Periodical Press Gallery Director Justin Wilson. According to the gallery rules members must not “act as an agent for, or be employed by the Federal, or any State, local …

The Hill reports: Top White House advisor Kellyanne Conway on Tuesday criticized the Democratic Party, saying former President Obama’s public appearance a day earlier made her feel like she has “no idea” who is leading the party. “President Obama reminded me yesterday, I have no idea who the leader of the Democratic Party is. Is it him? On whose watch?” …

The Daily Beast reports: The man who now stands a very good chance of becoming the next president of France, Emmanuel Macron, is trying to shore up his campaign against Russian influence that might favor his opponent, far-right candidate and Vladimir Putin favorite Marine Le Pen. On Monday, the day after Macron and Le Pen beat nine other candidates to …

The Hill reports: Kellyanne Conway on Friday said the Trump administration is confident that a government shutdown will be avoided next week. But the senior White House aide would not say whether money for President Trump’s long-touted border wall would have to be included in a government funding bill. “I’m going to let OMB director Mick Mulvaney and the president …

“This is nothing I ever sought or expected. It’s not as if I said to my children, ‘Mommy is running for governor, or starring in a new film, so attention will intensify and the unhappy people with poison keyboards will get nastier.’” – Kellyanne Conway, in a Politico article about her being stalked by paparazzi. Which is what happens when …

This morning Propaganda Minister Kellyanne Conway called on Democrats to denounce the violence seen at anti-Trump protests this weekend. Conway, unshockingly, made no reference to the self-professed pro-Trump Nazis and admitted white supremacists that participated in the violence. Politico reports:  “Six months after Donald Trump won 306 electoral votes, you have people still trying to make it go away, and …

Mediaite reports: White House senior advisor Kellyanne Conway took part in a media forum on Wednesday morning, where she defended Donald Trump while shrugging off the notion that she contributed to the negative relationship between the president and the press. Conway spoke with Michael Wolff at the Newseum’s ‘President and the Press’ event, where they brought up The Washington Post‘s …

Via Mediaite: White House Counselor Kellyanne Conway dismissed the reports of an administration shakeup, saying that President Trump likes having a diversity of opinion and not just a bunch of “yes-men” surrounding him. There are reports this week that Steve Bannon and Jared Kushner have been battling each other, and there’s one report today saying Bannon and Reince Priebus may …

YouTube parodist Vic Berger has delivered another of his classic supercuts, this time targeting Propaganda Minister Kellyanne Conway. Watch below as Berger cobbles together dozens of Conway’s evasions, blusters, and faux outrage meltdowns. Also, she winks a lot.

New York Magazine today published a lengthy interview with Propaganda Minister Kellyanne Conway. Here’s the bit getting the most attention: “I don’t do the press briefings,” she explained. “Sean does!” Walking into a small office space behind the briefing lectern, she could see that her words had already made their way to various cable-news chyrons, which thrilled her. “And there …

Politico reports: Kellyanne Conway, counselor to the president, said Washington is “humorless.” “No one can take a joke either, that is definitely true, humorless Washington,” Conway said Friday when asked about her comment that microwaves can be for surveillance. Conway was attending the National Review Institute’s Ideas Summit when she joked that she no longer eats ice cream right out …

CNN reports: Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, was paid more than $33,750 by Russia’s state-run broadcaster RT TV-Russia for a speech in Moscow in December 2015, a top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee has learned. The US intelligence community has long assessed RT to be a propaganda tool of the Kremlin, writing in …

Politico reports: Fox News host Sean Hannity said Tuesday night that NBC News “is on a political jihad” against President Donald Trump after MSNBC host Rachel Maddow aired details from a portion of the president’s 2005 tax return on her show. The tax documents broadcast Tuesday night by Maddow show that Trump paid $38 million in taxes in 2005 on …

USA Today reports: “It’s true,” Colbert said facetiously. “Microwaves that turn into cameras. How do you think we film this show?” The camera then turned to someone manning a microwave on a tripod. Colbert also sarcastically backed up Conway’s declaration in an interview with CNN that she was “not Inspector Gadget.” “Inspector Gadget had all sorts of tools at his …